September 28th, 8h30p.m.

After 4 days of meetings and screenings Parma International Music Film Festival is finally ready to crown its own protagonists.

Saturday night, at the end of the exclusive diner gala hosted by the Circolo della Lettura in the refined Salone San Paolo, the precious awards Violetta D’Oro for the best soundtrack and the Violetta D’Argento for the best movie will be consigned to their new proud owners.

The whole Parma International Music Film Festival would like to thank all artists and audience occured to the festival during this fabulous week.

A special thank goes to the Gioielleria Claudia Oddi who crafted these two amazing prizes for our festival,

[ENG] A production that could be called absolutely particular from the point of view of the mix of sound and images, like all the productions of Baraka Films dedicated to “rock climbers: climbers, mountaineers, cliffhangers. Rockin’ Cuba is a journey through the music and rock climbing, the pictures make us follow the exploration of the Vinales Valley which is located in the westernmost part of the island of Cuba, since 1999 included in the list of “World Heritage of’ humanity” by UNESCO.

[ENG] The story of the passion of a lonely young boy and of its efforts to catch the attention of the girl of his dreams. Hope and optimism are the main ingredients … but how will this love at first sight that pierced his heart finally end?

[ENG] A small musical that concerns the desire to escape from everyday life, sometimes full of frustrations, especially those related to work. The musical is inspired by the theatrical composition by Mike Pettry’s “Without A Stitch On” and is about a girl so sick of life she’s leading who decides to make a choice: stay naked all the time. Naked won “Best Original Song” at the Long Island International Film Expo and nominations in other major international festivals.

[ENG] A documentary which tells about history and traditions of the Bedouins of Qatar, and about the bond between the noble nomadic people to the plants on which they can rely on. The shot of the locations, photography and mix with the music, make of this naturalistic documentary a gem of its kind.

[ENG] Dr. David Piso, courageous scientist, has been studying for years thousands of cases of people abducted by aliens, deriving a shocking thesis: some extraterrestrial races for thousands of years settled in the minds of human abductees to genetically manipulate and exploit energy that is called “soul” . In the belief that they can expel the alien parasites, the professor, with the help of his team, uses a reckless hypnotic technique through which the “abductees” relive the experience of their abduction, but they also reveal to hot other personalities. Based on revolutionary scientific theories that are pushing the boundaries of our belief, the film launches the name for a new wave film: “Real-science.”

[ENG] A dramatic film that tells of a Neapolitan actor, Michelangelo, resigned to the new and incomprehensible era that advances in theaters. Giving up with his Pulcinella mask Michelangelo leaves for Paris to recover the relationship with his son. In the Parisian banlieues, Michelangelo finds his son and discovers an old theater guarded by Marie, an actress from Milan who pretends to be from Paris. With the help of a professor of the Sorbonne, his assistant Faiza and boys of the neighborhood, the Neapolitan actor (re)dust off chairs and tables of the stage, staging “the last Pulcinella”, a symbol of the humble and soul of the people of Naples and of all peoples offended. There are not many Italian actors able to carry gesture and body understood as engines of rhythm and as central elements of the magical space of the scene. Massimo Ranieri is one of those artists, heir to the centrality of the actor and the script as excuse for his performance.

[ENG] Ilario, retired after a lifetime of work as an engineer in the north of Italy, is not convinced by his wife Irma to move to an isolated farm of the Tuscan Maremma: 15 chickens, 7 horses and a daring plan devised by Irma… and their love will be put to the test.

[ENG] Art is dead. The “Muse” is dead, and artists of all ages take part in a tribute to his funeral, but someone does not show up … Both the short, animation, music are traveling in the same direction but on two different vehicles. Both have as their common thread that homage to the dead art, and just like images also musical references are clear and explicit, as the first mention of “Lacrimosa” by Mozart, music furnishes the moment as if it were a living artist of the “group of six” and the idea of ​​a Satie playing “musique d’ameublement” or “musique by tapestry”.

[ENG] Frankie calls himself a “life saver”. And in fact he’s dominated by an instinct that leads him selflessly to save lives. But when, through the testimony of acquaintance of his own, he discovers that his own brother died of a drug overdose despite his admonitions, he decides to throw himself off a bridge, but a girl intervenes to save him convincing him with his own speeches …

[ENG] The stubbornness, the excess, the suffering in life and works of the explorer and filmmaker, photographer Alberto Maria De Agostini (1883 – 1960) are arbitrarily reinvented in this movie. Left as a missionary as a 26 years guy from a small town in Piedmont, he reached in 1910 Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He climbed mountains and fjords, he discovered and explored glaciers giving them names. Faceing the yearning and pain of the death of the last Indians he could not use other words than those impressed on his photographic plates or on the frames of his beautiful film “Terre Magellaniche”.

[ENG] It’s the story of Aurora (Bianca Guaccero), thirty years old, cheerful and optimistic, who escapes from his village in Puglia in order to move to Rome and specialize in sexology. Forced to return home because she believes that his mother is dying, she finds herself to deal with the curiosity and suspicionof the villagers. Who can be so bold to open a sex therapy studio in a place full of prejudice where everyone knows everything? A really funny comedy with a unique script, especially curated in the authenticity of places and characters that reflect an insight of southern Italy faithful in behavior and mentality.

[ENG] F5 is a musical composed by eight little novels. Eight is because of the eight musical bands involved in the movie and any novel is dedicated to each one of them. The movie is a mix between a documentary and a fiction, characterized by every single story representing in both real dimension and illusionary and slumberland.

[ENG] Right after a police check at the bus stop, a young arab-born father can’t explain to his son the reason of that kind of treatment, unaware that the most unpredictable events of the day didn’t happen yet.

[ENG] Nova Springs, a green town full of young rock talents, is struck to the heart by a series of brutal murders that seem to affect the world of music, work of a mysterious disguised serial killer called Naughty Rocky Boy, who kills his victims with rock music citations using tools artfully modified. The comic-like characters that populate the film are all very “over the top”, as the world of rock actually is, a world that made of provocation and insanity its strengths.

[ENG] On November 2011, more than 600 climbers join the team to deal with the Petzl RocTrip, all participants have ventured on the rock to the discovery of new ways (more than 250). For many months the team Baraka Films have prepared the project with meticulous care and filmed interviews in all languages​​, creating a unique musical patchwork and many extreme sequences. It starts from the provinces of Guizhou in Southwest China, and more precisely at the foot of the cliffs and the Great Arch of Getu Hé. An intense journey to the discovery of a mysterious country and its inhabitants, in company with many international climbers.

[ENG] When a boy is removed from the civilized world, HE discovers another world, a shadowy and mysterious land populated by old gods and wild hunters. With THE only guidance of an old hawk, he has to choose what is truly real and what simply comes from the imagination. But the true values ​​remain such the same.

[ENG] What happens when a woman raises and runs an orchestra? Here’s the activity and the method of Johanna Knauf, one of the rare female conductor, who melts music, sensibility and socialization. It is incredible how she could let hundreds of amateurs, along with professionals, perform great operas at the best locations around the city of Florence. An undercover etnographer just turns upside down the performance, filming the conductor from the point of view of the executors… Winner of “The Spirit of Da Vinci Award 2013” at the Da Vinci Days Film Festival – USA.

[ENG] Short movie close to horror, thriller, animation, dance music, experimental video. The main character gets killed by his best friend and wife for business matters, but the spirit of the protagonist takes his revenge tormenting the two killers. The peculiarity of this short is about the fact it has been entirely produced with a PC and a mobile Nokia 5230.

[ENG] Silent short based on four kids of different creeds chasing a kite. Each child is running along a separate road that will lead him to gather with the others in the end… Anshul Sinha is an international awarded film maker and this latest work is completely shot with a mobile phone camera.

[ENG] Future legends of the 20th century operatic world shared this project, namely a series of four among the main opera works like Bizet’s “Carmen” featuring the mezzo-soprano Beatrice Uria Monzon, considered as a real example in the role of Carmen. A rare and favored chance for the audience to behold what happens behind the curtains of the preparation before an opera production: sketches, costumes, scenic design, stage directors.

[ENG] Paris, 5.000 years of history, an exclusive travel across the time. Let’s discover the Paris you’d never imagine through the experiences of men and women involved in the events which shaped this extraordinary city. “Paris, the great saga” will let you revive these adventures by the fiction, the accurate documentaristic value and the magnificent photography.

[ENG] Before the coming of Sergio Leone everybody was convinced that western could only be and American cinematographic genre, as long as “A fistful of dollars” was released and broke through at the box-office and moreover introduced an actor like Clint Eastwood. Massimiliano Pierantonio, Popular Music student at the Conservatory “A. Boito” in Parma, decides to show an excursus about this filmic genre deeply bonded to the Morricone music, and make it a document which speaks about an all-italian genre that drove to K.O. those who actually invented it.